Center for Innovative OT Solutions

Inspiring Occupation-Centered Practice

The Center for Innovative OT Solutions (CIOTS) inspires occupation-centered practice by
equipping occupational therapists with occupation-based and occupation-focused tools for
practice and research. Our tools help occupational therapists infuse more occupation into
each phase of practice, including evaluation, intervention, documentation, goal-setting, and
reevaluation.

CIOTS brings together occupational therapists who value occupation-centered practice through
organizing training courses, workshops, and research symposiums. We believe that
occupational therapists best communicate their unique professional value when they use
occupation as the basis and focus of each step in their occupational therapy process.

If the focus of our practice is to be occupation, then the focus of our evaluations,
interventions, and documentation, not just our outcomes, should be occupation.

Anne Fisher, 2009

Tools for Occupation-Centered Practice

Our assessment tools provide occupational therapists with standardized, occupation-based
evaluations that measure the quality of a client’s performance of activities of daily living
(ADL), or schoolwork tasks, or social exchanges. Our two newest assessments measure the
extent of the difference between a client’s reported problems with occupational performance
and those observed by the occupational therapist.

The Occupational Therapy Intervention Process Model (OTIPM) is a professional reasoning
model that helps occupational therapists to transform each phase of their occupational
therapy practice to be more occupation-centered with or without using our standardized
assessment tools.

Tools for Occupation-Centered Practice

Our assessment tools provide occupational therapists with standardized, occupation-based
evaluations that measure the quality of a client’s performance of activities of daily living
(ADL), or schoolwork tasks, or social exchanges. Our two newest assessments measure the
extent of the difference between a client’s reported problems with occupational performance
and those observed by the occupational therapist.

The Occupational Therapy Intervention Process Model (OTIPM) is a professional reasoning
model that helps occupational therapists to transform each phase of their occupational
therapy practice to be more occupation-centered with or without using our standardized
assessment tools.

Anne Fisher, who delivered the Slagle lecture in 1998, developed and published
the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS; Fisher, 1992; Fisher &
Jones, 2011) and subsequently the School AMPS (Atchison, Fisher, & Bryze,
1998; Fisher, Bryze, & Atchison, 2000), both measures of occupational
performance and performance skills and the gold standard in terms of the
sophistication of its psychometric properties (Fisher, 1993).

Our most well-known assessment. The AMPS is used by more than 17,000 occupational therapists in
34 countries. The AMPS is an occupation-based and occupation-focused standardized assessment
that is used to measure the quality of a client’s ADL performance.

One of our newest assessments. The ACQ-OP is a partner tool to the AMPS and
measures the extent of the discrepancy between a client’s perspective on his/her quality of ADL
task performance and the corresponding AMPS results.

One of our newest assessments. The ACQ-SI is a partner tool to the ESI and measures
the extent of the discrepancy between a client’s perspective on his/her quality of social
interaction and the corresponding ESI results.

The OTIPM is a professional reasoning model that helps the occupational therapist to practice in
a more client-centered, occupation-based and occupation-focused manner.

We Are OCCUPATIONAL Therapists

As occupational therapists, we offer something unique to our clients and colleagues — an
occupation-centered perspective. Join us in reflecting on our unique professional value by
considering the role occupation should have in occupational therapy evaluations,
interventions, documentation, and research.